Show Some people there are who cannot keep their heir holidays straight N Not t that they ob- ob erve Independence Day on OI Dec December 25 but nit that th they y do donot not confine Halloween stunts to that particular r day day in in the fall Some ome one evidently forgetting the time of year ear made Thursday night the date of a series of c crude ude hoodlum operations here at athe athe atthe he the University UI and as a result has aroused a storm of protest and indignation Friday morning when the janitor force appeared at the U they found themselves in dire straits All the in n key holes several several sev- sev eral ral of the buildings were stuffed with cement cement ce- ce ment the clock which sounds the class periods was entirely out of working order and nd on further investigation it if was discovered red ered that various pranks had been carried car- car ried out For instance one of the the statues from rom the art room had been taken out on n the lawn and in so so doing accord according inK to the report report re- re port ort of Professor Evans materially dam- dam aged ged The caps on the 1911 drinking fou fountain tain were also discovered to be miss- miss ng But the m most st ha havoc oc was was- creat created d in Pro Dr r. r Packs Pack's office offic His His lis ca carefully compiled d and ind classified classified ss reports aI and d statistics s. s were f found in a heap on his office floor not one onet t thing hing ing save the ro room m itself was in place the Hie I Professor states that this material can cane canDe lie De f. f e rearranged in its previous order only at n it the cost of considerable energy time and skill a r The night watchman was was was' found to be in inthe inthe the he the worst condition of all Bound gagged and blind folded he had been thrown into one of the holes hole's being dug as tests for the then foundation of the new Central building Ie I-Ie lie was not injured however The University public is righteously incensed and as the organ of the student body the Chronicle desires to declare it itself itself itself it- it self as entirely out of sympathy with such ridiculous manifestations of hoodlumism Most 1 s students we believe look on a college college col col- college lege prank with a good deal of tolerance but such an attitude must cease in the minds of real students when the destruction destruction destruction tion of property and the intimidation of s school hool officials officials' begin Harvard still survives survives survives sur sur- vives although it aw awoke k one morning orning to fund the statue of John Harv Harvard rd painted red an and that great university still exists in spite of f the fact that a number of its students students stu stu- dents succeeded in forging an honorary L. L L. L D. D degree to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Ger Germany per per- r- r many much to that monarchs monarch's elation at first and indignation later and much to the discomfiture of that stayed old school But when such pranks involve the wanton was waste e of property they cease t to be at all funny on the contrary they become serious offenses If the a act t were new this new this is only about the tenth time it has happened happened if if it had some pO point I t to it if it involved a display display display dis dis- play of keen witt and quick brains or any of the other assets of an acceptable joke then we might laugh it off But as the thing actually stands we ye and we believe the whole student body will be only too glad to assist the school officials in jn taking the necessary drastic steps to make impossible a repetition of such mean destructive and brainless hood hood- |